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Denise Duhamel: Poet, Educator

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Denise Duhamel: Poet, Educator

 

 




Introduction to Denise Duhamel   1:15 min.  Interview:  Raymond Elman.  Post-Production:  Sidney Peralta.  Music: Nathan Moore,  Recorded via Zoom:  8/30/2022, Miami.

 

Poet DENISE DUHAMEL earned her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Her most recent books of poetry are Second Story; Scald; and Blowout, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other titles include Ka-Ching!; Two and Two; Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems; The Star-Spangled Banner; and Kinky. She and Maureen Seaton have co-authored four poetry collections, the most recent of which is CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New). Her collaboration with FIU Professor Julie Marie Wade, The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, was published by Noctuary Press in 2019. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

The videos below were recorded via Zoom, are organized by Success Factor, and run between 30 seconds and 4 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.

 

 

“Dear memory”:  2:44 min.




Denise Duhamel reads “Dear memory.”

 

DEVELOP A VOICE:   1:42 min.




Where did you grow up and what was your first awareness of art of any discipline?

 

CRITICAL THINKING:   0:38 sec.




Do you still have an accordion?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:  0:36 sec.




Have you written much about Woonsocket, Rhode Island?

 

OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED:  1:53 min.




When did you start embracing reading, and when did writing become a passion for you?

 

DEVELOP A VOICE:  3:31 min.




Where did you go to school and what did you learn that still informs you today?

 

OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED:  2:19 min.




Do Woonsocket people have a strong accent like New Bedford people?

 

OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED:   0:58 sec.




What was your experience at Sarah Lawrence College?

 

STRONG DRIVE FOR ACHIEVEMENT:  2:20 min.




Talk about the evolution of your career after Sarah Lawrence.

 

CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND:  0:48 sec.




Do you feel that one of your strengths is developing concepts for your poems?

 

BREAKS THE RULES:  2:24 min.




When you use humor in your poems, do you get any pushback from critics or fellow poets?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:  0:33 sec.




How is the timing of comedy similar to the timing in poetry?

 

EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES:  1:20 min.




Who are your role models and influencers?

 

CRITICAL THINKING:  1:01 min.




What are you working on now?

 

UNDERSTANDS ARTISTS’ NEEDS:  2:08 min.




What’s your assessment of Miami’s writing community, and how can it grow and become even more fruitful?

 

“Two more purses”:  1:19 min.




Denise Duhamel reads “Two more purses.”